A HANGING MATTER
A regrettable slip on the part of the National Academy of Design is causing much embarrassment in the more conservative artistic circles here, writes the New York correspondent of "Ihe Times. The academy, although highly traditional in its views, decided that this year, in awarding the Altman prize of £100, it would prove itself perfectly capable of giving ,due and unprejudiced recognition to "modern art" on occasion. The ]ury, composed of twenty members and associate members of the academy, awarded the prize to a composition entitled Ihe iosiil Hunters," by Mr. Edward W. Dickinson. Too late it was discovered—by the official photographer summoned to take a photograph of the painting—that the picture had been hanging on its side the whole time, a fact undetected by the academy jury. It has, moreover, been discovered that the same picture was exhibited at the Carnegie International Exhibition at Pittsburg in 1928, and that there, too, it was displayed hanging the wrong way up.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 6
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163A HANGING MATTER Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 6
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